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Want Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really…
- Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
- He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is…
- To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
- We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
- Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for…
- If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be…
- I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must…
- That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this…
- To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
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